Developments as well as the president of the united states about to address the nation on this in about an hour. We ll get a gauge on this and how it affects our plans if at all to depart on august 31. There s a growing call by a lot of our allies including many democrats and republicans in this country that he extend and push back that timetable. No indication whether he will jump on that. Some positive developments are that the flights have been resuming at the airport. Not the frequency that we re seeing every 39, 40 minutes but resuming nevertheless. There s still about 1,000 americans that are in the country, want to leave the country but we can t get a good handle where they are exactly in the country. Let s go to jennifer griffin on where all of this stands right now. She s at the pentagon. Jennifer? neil, we just came out of a briefing here with centcom commander general frank mckenzie. He explained what happened outside abbey gate today. He confirmed the death toll, that 12 u.
Reporter: this deadline may be next week but us forces in afghanistan are not wasting time. Some have begun to draw down already. The situation around kabul is pretty dire as desperate americans and others remain stranded, us allies tried to pressure president biden yesterday to extend his troop withdrawal deadline but he would not weaver. We are on pace to finish by august 30 first. The sooner we can finish the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to the troops. I asked pentagon and state department to continue to plan to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. Reporter: at this point we don t know how many americans remain trapped in afghanistan and many afghan nationals who assisted the us the past few decades fear for their lives may simply be left behind as tell man checkpoints become impenetrable. The chorus of critics in washington includes democrats and republicans blue just the most dishonorable thing i commanderinchief is done in modern times. Biden sig
Said, behind enemy lines. At this hour, the biden administration, they still don t know exactly how many. Joe is estimating about 15,000. They don t know where they are located. They can t even tell us exactly how many have been evacuated, and worst of all, they have zero plan to rescue any americans, and according to the wall street journal, this is the return of america held hostage. Some 15,000 u. S. Citizens and residents are behind taliban lines, and there is no easy way to get them out. That is just a fact. They have allowed it to get that bad. And as we speak, there are other countries at least trying, and they are extracting their citizens with their special forces. For example, the british are calling it operation pity. But the united states, as of now, has no such program. And a press conference, the department of defense told us that the u. S. Military is under orders to protect the karzai international airport. That is it. According to a state department and memo, the unite
Know exactly how many. Joe is estimating about 15,000. They don t know where they are located. They can t even tell us exactly how many have been evacuated, and worst of all, they have zero plan to rescue any americans, and according to the wall street journal, this is the return of america held hostage. Some 15,000 u. S. Citizens and residents are behind taliban lines, and there is no easy way to get them out. That is just a fact. C they have allowed it to get that bad. And as we speak, there are other countries at least trying, and they are extracting their citizens with their special forces. For example, the british are calling it operation pity. But the united states, as of now, has no such program. And a press conference, the department of defense told us that the u. S. Military is under orders to protect the karzai international airport. That is it. According to a state department and memo, the united states government cannot ensure safe passage to the hamid karzai international
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